It’s time for another Theme Thursday. This week’s theme is Vegetables.This time around I’m just going to talk about vegetables straight up. No elaborate comedy idea. Sure, I could talk about how brussel sprouts are a delicious part of a vegan breakfast! I could go on and on about other wacky uses for vegetables. But not this time. Vegetables are wacky enough on their own.
First of all, people can’t even decide on whether a bunch of them are a vegetable or a fruit. Take the tomato for example. Biologically it is a fruit but a law was accidentally passed to define it as vegetable. What of the pumpkin? Technically it is a fruit too. But when speaking in terms of cuisine it can be either. Humans, we have to categorize and then we have to have exceptions.
But there are some weird ass vegetables out there. Take this strange Italian cauliflower…

I have a hard enough time liking some root down in the ground without imagining it as something else! But imagining vegetables as something else is a long standing tradition that is only getting bigger and bigger.
Take pumpkins. Pumpkins are the quintessential carved vegetable on the planet. They’ve come along way from your basic kid carvings too!
84 comments:
Oh my, Oh my, Oh my.
Yup, read it again, and that is all I can say is oh my, oh my.
Where did those carrots come from? The Garden, with Adam and Eve?
And that yam, oh my.
Those peppers are really hot!
And why do I not look so good in my bikini?
I want to go back to Alaska.
My fish never look so cute.
Oh, okay, I did find a little more to say.
God bless. Oh my.
Oh yes, and the oh my is for moving up to 20, I guess it is now 21. Oh my.
Thanks VE, you rock.
Just so you know, do I get to be first, second, third, fourth. Oh my.
I did this one time on a very much used website and I got up to number 13. Fifth. Oh my. Okay, I will stop.
Sixth, just can't stop myself. Am trying. Gotta get to VA.
That was Veggie's Annonymous. Alright I will truly stop. I promise.
Okay, grandson just came in and saved me. Moving on to next TT.
That Italian cauliflowers is scary! I'm not even sure how I would go about eating it. It looks even more impenetrateable than an artichoke. All I can say about the erotic veggies is, I guess all life is concerned with reproducing. Amazing.
I'd love to try the Italian cauliflower. And I can totally see what you mean about it looking like a Dr.Seuss world...
My whole family loves vegetables and I've never had a hard time getting my kids to eat them.
I think the key to that is to offer a wide variety when they're young and give them several options.
I've never heard of ass vegetables, even the weird ones.
your second last set of pictures comes from saxton freymann who speciallizes in that sort of thing. i have a book of his and this year's calender. i love his whmisy.
that last collage though....wow, the spud and peppers are a bit disturbing.
That gentleman carrot is, um, very well endowed!
mrsupole - Eight comments...oh my! Of course you realize my blog roll tally is done by hand by me and that you get one tally per post. Don't worry, you haven't been the first to try and advance higher this way! ;)
ronda - Yeah I don't know what you'd do with that cauliflower either. Use it for decorating?
blondegoddess - Whew, I thought I was the only one seeing Dr. Suess characters down there...
kurt - Ha! It's part of a balanced ass dinner!
lime - You mean there are sources to the photos I mercilessly steal out there? Wow! Oh, and the last one is why you should always wash your vegetables...
incredible woody - Well, lets put it this way. He doesn't need to drive a monster truck...
That italian cauliflower looks like a moon rock and I refuse to eat moon rocks.
sornie - Why? Are they high in cholesteral? I always thought moon rocks were a good source of Tang...
I'm pretty much a vegetable until I have my 2nd cup of coffee. Then I'm more of a nut.
I find it funny that the "female" carrot is crossing it's legs. A sort of "you aren't sticking that thing here."
And...hahhaha....the string coming out of the male carrot's third leg looks like something else.
roy - That's me with Pepsi. I don't drink coffee. "Sometimes you feel like a nut...sometimes you don't!"
jacki - Well look at the size of that thing, can you blame her?
oh my. amazing pic of the shells cauliflower as well. would be interesting to try to get in your mouth. great play on the theme. no comedy, indeed.
The Italian Cauliflower/Brocolli thingy has a beautiful name which I just learned and promptly forgot. Romanesco - there we go. Wouldn't you just want to bronze it and keep it forever.
Great.
Now I want to bang a kumquat.
Again.
i had so much trouble writing about vegetables and i come over here and find this. i think i need to rent out one of your gnomes to help me with next week's theme.
weird ass indeed! another thoroughly entertaining add! thanks!!
Well I guess those veggies don't relate to the Virgin Mary Squash or the potato that resemelbed Jesus Christ or Obama they couldn't decide who it looked more like.
brian - Yeah, well, maybe a little comedy. I just can't stop myself...
clever pup - It would seem that its better to just display it somewhere than eat it. A museum or something. Anything in Italian sounds nice to me...
moooooog35 - Ha! I suspected it wasn't your first rodeo...
jaime - Careful though...they tend to give wedgies and leave your screen door open to let out the pets...
mouse - I guess I'm fated to all things weird ass...
gladys - The has to be a balance. For every Virgin Mary squash there is a Newt Gingrich artichoke...
Great Googly Moogly, VE! With your erotic vegetables and Dana's review of a "rather large" sex toy, my expectations of what certain things should look like are.....er.....changing.
Yes. I know. I've lived a sheltered life.
No brussel sprouts for me today!
My eyes! My eyes! They burn!
I'll never look at a carrot the same way again.
Thanks VE.
Really thanks.
Did I say thanks?
heh heh
reforminggeek - Watch where you put the butter on that spud!
quirkyloon - VE...ruining vegetables one image at a time...
I'd like to know WHO looked at that Italian cauliflower one day and said "Yeah, I'd eat that." What???
From now on whenever I serve baked potatoes they will be peeled to look like they are wearing bathing suits. Brilliant!
That last photo is great! My favorite vegetable is still GWB.
wings - It makes one wonder about that, huh? I once did a post about trial and error where I pondered all the crazy things we do and how somebody had to figure all of them out somewhere along the line...
sarah - Be sure to put some sun screen on them before you bake them. You don't want cancerous baked potatoes!
kan - GWB is a unhealthy vegetable though! Fun to laugh at but look at the economy now!
Wow! Vegetable porn before 8:00 in the morning. I was not ready for that!
I can just imagine the chaos those veggies would have caused if they had been found in our garden when the kids were young!!
ah ah :D
Yeah some vegetables are really weird for sure!I wanted to put the potato one too but then I changed my mind,lol.
I like italian cauliflower but true it's kind of a weird veggie!
Great post
:)
Mrsupole,how many messages?lol
Hum..not sure it's a potato though..
HAHAHA! the carrots are hilarious!!
My face hurts from laughing.
Even when you're not trying to be humorous, I still get a few chuckles, VE. Marvelous post! I dunno 'bout that Italian cauliflower..it just looks plain mean!!!
elizabeth - You're a regular here! You should know better. There are very frew dull moments at Fantastical Nonsense and plenty of unwelcome shockers sprinkled in
willow - Think of it this way...saves you from broaching the old birds and bees talk...
candi - Wow, you've eaten it? What do you do with it? It looks impenetrable...
reyjr - Yes, carrots are active memebers in the Naughty Vegetables Club...
perpetual - Lever laugh at a male carrot, you'll get less carrot...
perpetual - Never, I meant never. If you want a lever...Vegas slots...
subtorp77 - I don't know what to do with it either...the gnomes like it though. But what can you really say about the tastes of a garden gnome...
Interesting portrayal of vegetables.
I wonder what the Italian cauliflower tastes like.
VE, so true, that...
See? I always said Mother Nature had a sense of humor. But I had no idea she watched YouPorn in her spare time.
eeeK!
I'm clutching my pearls!
Did that carrot have a...
LOL
I have to either change grocery stores or start growing my own vegetables.
I’ve been buying the most boring vegetables ever.
That's Mr Potato Head alright.
HUGS!
oh and I love that bok choy fish!
Adorable!!
HUGS!
dakota - I'm guessing sea shells...
subtorp77 - They're always wanting to redecorate my place. I usually just lock 'em out.
roy - Ha! Well father time is pretty old you know...she's gotta go somewhere.
auntie - Don't clutch your pearls with vinegar covered hands... they'll melt! And I have no idea what you are referring to with the carrot; obviously some of us have an active imagination! ;)
beth - Yeah...you'll have to grow them. The farmers never let that stuff go to the market. They keep 'em for themselves.
leelee - There you are! I knew I could pry you away from facebook for a second! ha ha
if not YOU then who?? I ask you!
HUGS!!
Geez, those are some very weird vegetables. Fruits? Whatever. They're just ... weird. I may never eat carrots again.:-)
Oh shit. Did I forget to comment here? I thought I did. Now I have to think of something again. :)
Wow.
I wish I could carve pumpkins that well.
I've tried carving Twinkies, but somehow it's just not the same.
leelee - You'd do it for THE BOSS!
serena - If it's weird, it usually makes its way here...
teri - Too late! ;)
janna - Twinkies should never be opened. Best to leave them in their original state...
i don't get the last bit of photos.....perverted? huh?
ok yes, you and The Boss!
HUGS!
Hmmmmm,that was strange. I just got a strange craving for a red potato that came out of nowhere....it's just odd.
dee - Why there just very sensual vegetables, that's all!
leelee - Yeah...thought so!
thinkinfyou - Funny how that works...
I've always found swede's sexy...
kris - I've found sexy Swede's sexy...
I gotta agree with Sornie. That cauliflower thing definitely looks like something from another planet. I think I'll stay away from it.
dalton - What are you talking about? Cuisine from other planets is delicious!
I don't even eat cauliflower from this planet though! So, there's no way I'll try an alien variety.
I loved the way that hand ( i assume its a female hand) is tenderly picking up the potato(e).
i'm still reporting you for posting
"suggestive sexual themes*" on your page VE. Maybe Entrecard will reconsider if i rat others out...
*their idiotic reason for denying me
Tomatoes are nature's outlaws, no doubt there!
Ohhh! LOVE the fish and penguins!
But I am disappointed you didn't use my Jack Sparrow pumpkin up there...
;)
dalton - Me neither...I was just thinking of alien ice cream...
kevin - Ha! Entrecard... Just another pimp vehicle I'm not interested in. I'm happy with my small but awesome readership!
chris - I see you've had some dealings with tomatoes! Don't let them black mail you...
maureen - But I did get a death star pumpkin in there. Surely Star Wars anything scores points with you...
OMG - those erotic vegies! Maybe the vegans have something after all?
venom - They've been "holding" out! ha ha
This is exactly why I always chop my vegetables with my eyes closed and earplugs in my ears. I am afraid that someday one is going to wake up and start screaming as I'm preparing it for eating.
Your Italian Cauliflower looks like a bad food fungus. Isn't that a thong I see under it?
teeni - Ha! Screeming when chopping is never good...
carla - I hope not! I think it's just something to avoid touching it when you pick it up...
Arhhhh !!!!I just ate mashed potato before visiting!!!!!!!
tony - Boy...hope it wasn't red potatoes! ha ha
That Italian cauliflower looks like a head peice from some vintage Star Trek episode. I do love the Jack pumpkin though =)
starrlight - Ha! That cauliflower would fit in well with Star Trek. Maybe it could be like Tribbles where it keeps replicating...
I always carry that potatoe on the bottom left when i'm wearing me kilt!
uncivil - Too much information...
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